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...girl yarn made for less than $200,000 and featuring Glen Hansard, the lead singer of the Dublin rock band The Frames as a busker/vacuum repairman trying to launch a recording career singing on street corners. In July comes Hairspray, with newcomer Nikki Blonsky, 18, and old-comers John Travolta and Michelle Pfeiffer (shout-out to Grease 2 fans!) in a cinematic take on the Tony-winning Broadway musical, which was itself a showy take on the 1988 John Waters cult film about teens in a dance contest in Civil Rights-era Baltimore. Fall brings Across the Universe, a 1960s...
...PRESENT LIFE IN THE KEY OF ME ME ME In Hairspray, Blonsky and Travolta, who is in drag here as Edna Turnblad in the role Harvey Fierstein played on stage, are sassy mother-daughter spokes-models for plus-size empowerment. "You have to find a theme that contemporary audiences relate to," says Neil Meron, producer of Hairspray and the 2002 film Chicago. "Hairspray is about body image, racial tolerance, what constitutes a family." Think Oprah's Live Your Best Life tour, with a beat and bigger hair...
...slasher film with car chases, which basically means that the film starts out being one thing but ends up being something else entirely.The film revolves around a psychotic stuntman (Kurt “Snake Plissken” Russell, in a piece of such inspired casting it rivals John Travolta in “Pulp Fiction” and David Carradine in “Kill Bill”) whose “death-proof” car serves as the primary weapon on his murderous rampage. Until, that is, he gets a taste of his own medicine from a pack...
...recent industry confab gave clips of the movie-musical Hairspray a standing ovation. John Travolta, who reprises the drag role of Edna Turnblad created by Divine in the original '88 John Waters comedy, told EW.com's POPWATCH, "I was hoping to [come across] as a woman, not as a man doing a woman." You go, girl. SCORE...
...district, a series of crumbling redbrick factories that house the Chinese capital's largest concentration of art galleries. Appearing at an opening for the painter Yang Shaobin, the 44-year-old millionaire businessman stands out from the crowd of black-clad, ponytailed dealers, critics and artists, more John Travolta than Jasper Johns. His black hair is permed into loose curls that flounce slightly as he walks, his torso covered by a tight, long-sleeved silk shirt decorated with swirling white, brown and black shapes, a large medallion bearing a golden crown clasped around his neck. [an error occurred while processing...